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Amor - Schöder, Fraas

Ars Produktion  ARS 38 144

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical - Opera

W.A. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (overture & "Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln"); Don Giovanni ("Vedrai carino")
G.F. Händel: Rinaldo ("Lascia ch´io pianga")
Richard Strauss: "Amor" Op. 68, No. 5
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas ("When i am laid in earth")
Telemann: Germanicus ("Rimembranza crudel")
Weber: Der Freischütz ("Einst träumte meiner sel´gen Base")
Gounod: Roméo et Juliette ("Je veux vivre")
Friedrich von Flotow: Martha ("Letzte Rose", "Zum treuen Freunde geh/Den Teuren zu versöhnen")
Léo Delibes: Lakmé ("Ou va la jeune Indoue")

Marie Frederike Schöder (Schoder)
Vogtland Philharmonie
Stefan Fraas

All

Works (12)

• Leo Delibes: Lakmé (1883) Air des clochettes. Où va la jeune Indoue?
• Friedrich von Flotow: Martha (1847) Letzte Rose
• Friedrich von Flotow: Martha (1847) Zum treuen Freunde geh ... Den Teuren zu versöhnen
• Charles-Francois Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, CG 9 Ah! Je veux vivre
• George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo, HWV 7b Lascia ch´io pianga
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384 Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 384 Overture
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K. 527 Vedrai carino
• Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626 When I am laid in earth
• Richard Strauss: Lieder (6), TrV 235 No. 5 Amor
• Georg Philipp Telemann: Germanicus: Rimembranza crudel
• Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, Op. 77 Einst träumte meiner sel´gen Base